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...Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts...
...One-tenth of the men started their own business or professional office the first year out; by the eighth year nearly a third were their own bosses...
...swam the 50 in 22.9, typing the National Collegiate Athletic Association record, a time which, incidentally, is one-tenth of a second under Charlie Hutter's best performance. Tomski also won the 100 in 52.# and swam a relay 100 in 50.3, which is seven-tenths of a second under the accepted world record set by Johnny Weismuller and Peter Fick. Of course, this time must be considered unofficial, as are all relay clockings...
...Arab territory constitutes one of the world's last frontiers, with population scarcer than in any .other inhabited part of the globe. Palestine is rich in many minerals, can grow almost any kind of fruit or vegetable, has sufficient water supply. Instead of being overpopulated, it is notoriously undermanned. If as dense as Massachusetts, it would have 5,270,000 instead of 1,300,000 inhabitants. It now supports only one-tenth of the population of Roman times...
...Keynoted retiring President Frothingham: "Broadly speaking, there has for some time been no flow of new capital, the capital that employs men. From an average of $5,000,000,000 of new capital raised annually in 1924 to 1929, this has fallen to only $500,000,000, or to one-tenth...